Senate Bill S508

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Establishes the crime of patronizing a prostitute in a school zone and including daycare facilities within the definition of a school zone

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S508 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §230.06-a, amd §230.03, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S7858
2013-2014: S20
2015-2016: S463

2017-S508 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the crime of patronizing a prostitute in a school zone and includes daycare facilities within the definition of a school zone.

2017-S508 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S508 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    508
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  DIAZ  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime  of
   patronizing a prostitute in a school zone and including daycare facil-
   ities within the definition of a school zone
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new  section  230.06-a
 to read as follows:
 § 230.06-A PATRONIZING A PROSTITUTE IN A SCHOOL ZONE.
   A  PERSON  IS GUILTY OF PATRONIZING A PROSTITUTE IN A SCHOOL ZONE WHEN
 SUCH PERSON PATRONIZES A PROSTITUTE IN  A  SCHOOL  ZONE  AS  DEFINED  IN
 SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION 230.03 OF THIS ARTICLE.
   PATRONIZING A PROSTITUTE IN A SCHOOL ZONE IS A CLASS D FELONY.
   §  2.  Subdivision 2 of section 230.03 of the penal law, as amended by
 chapter 368 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   2. For the purposes of this section, section 230.08 and section 230.19
 of this article, "school zone" means (a) in or on or within  any  build-
 ing,  structure,  athletic  playing  field, playground or land contained
 within the real property boundary line of a public or private  elementa-
 ry, parochial, intermediate, junior high, vocational, or high school, OR
 DAYCARE FACILITY, or (b) any public sidewalk, street, parking lot, park,
 playground or private land, located immediately adjacent to the boundary
 line of such school OR FACILITY.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06636-01-7

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